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The ‘Poetic Justice’ of Hispanic Re-immigration

By Chris Suellentrop July 10, 2006 9:35 amJuly 10, 2006 9:35 am

Slate blogger and immigration opponent Mickey Kaus isn’t persuaded by Tony Horwitz’s Sunday op-ed in The New York Times about the “poetic justice” of Hispanic re-immigration to the United States. Kaus quotes Horwitz’s last line – “It’s an homage to our history, not a betrayal of it, to welcome the latest arrivals, just as the Indians did those tardy and uninvited Pilgrims who arrived in Plymouth not so long ago” – and writes, “The Indians were laudably welcoming. How’d that work out for them?”

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